Comprehension Ability: Creating and teaching the Dao in various worlds

Chapter 1350: Chapter 26: Plunging into the Deep Sea

Bang.

No surprises whatsoever.

The elder in the dragon robe sitting on the throne had his head explode like a watermelon.

The highest realm at the Entering Dao Master level is the materialization of the spirit.

Even the strongest Entering Dao Masters of the past could only materialize their spirits to a few meters.

The so-called Spiritual Power is a kind of illusory force that can influence reality by harnessing the power of heaven and earth; as for Spiritual Power itself, it cannot directly interfere with reality.

Materialization of the spirit is the process of the spiritual becoming material.

Only the spiritual power that has been materialized can directly affect real matter.

Separated by hundreds of years, Lin Yuan used the power of spiritual materialization to observe the head of the elder in the dragon robe, surpassing all techniques of Entering Dao Masters of past generations.

“Your Majesty.”

“Is Your Majesty dead?”

“Your Majesty is dead…”

The elder in the dragon robe’s head exploded, naturally first witnessed by the surrounding palace maids and eunuchs.

They couldn’t help but scream.

Soon, a large number of the Imperial Guard came in.

Immediately, the palace physicians also rushed over.

All the physicians, tense, intended to do their utmost to treat His Majesty.

But when they saw the headless emperor, they fell into silence.

If he had just fainted, even with no breath or pulse.

The palace physicians’ methods could still try to rescue him.

But now, without even a head, dead beyond dead, how could he be saved?

The nine highest-ranking commanders of the Imperial Guard looked at the elder in the dragon robe’s body, their silence somewhat terrifying.

Now, with the rebels about to attack, the Da Feng dynasty teetering, and the emperor dead at this time?

Once this news spreads, there’s no need to defend the city; they could just open the capital gates and surrender.

If the defending soldiers knew about this, their morale would certainly be in chaos; the emperor is dead, for whom do they fight?

If it were during peacetime, with the emperor’s sudden death, some caution, and immediate arrangement of a prince to ascend the throne,

they could likely stabilize the situation.

But now?

Let’s not talk about whether the situation can be stabilized.

Just which prince dares to take the throne?

Taking the throne now would most likely make him the king of a fallen nation.

A king of a fallen nation who hasn’t done anything yet.

And once the rebels breach the capital,

the rest of the royal family might survive,

but as for the emperor, he certainly won’t survive.

That is to say,

taking the throne now,

is a certain death and carries the infamy of being a king of a fallen nation.

…

The hall was controlled by the Imperial Guard,

yet outside the hall, it was chaotic.

Even the Imperial Guard itself was extremely confused.

The emperor’s sudden death was also a blow to them.

Coupled with the powerful force of the external rebels, people’s hearts began to waver.

No one noticed.

A young man emerged from the hall, frowning.

“Why isn’t the time loop over yet?”

Lin Yuan looked around at the chaotic surroundings, his mind deep in thought.

In the palace, daring to wear the dragon robe could only be the Da Feng emperor.

From the reactions of all inside the palace, the elder in the dragon robe must certainly be the Da Feng emperor.

Aside from the emperor’s death, what could have such a large impact on the palace?

Yet the more so,

the stranger Lin Yuan felt in his heart.

Since that elder in the dragon robe was the emperor,

now was dead beyond dead.

After piercing through with spiritual power,

Lin Yuan immediately confirmed the other’s death.

Even if penetrating the head was a mortal wound to begin with,

Lin Yuan still carefully checked him again.

Confirmed dead, having lost all living characteristics.

…

The Da Feng emperor thoroughly dead.

Also dead by Lin Yuan’s hand.

But why has the time loop not yet collapsed,

nor has he broken through the time loop?

“The Da Feng emperor…”

The intelligence on the Da Feng emperor flashed through Lin Yuan’s mind.

Strictly speaking, the Da Feng emperor was even two years younger than him.

Age should be eighty-six years.

Ascended the throne at sixteen.

That is to say, he ascended two years before Lin Yuan arrived in this time loop world.

Since then, he had always sat on the throne.

For seventy years, the Da Feng emperor hadn’t changed.

There’s no situation of having killed the wrong emperor.

And long before, fifty years ago, Lin Yuan obtained the Da Feng emperor’s portrait.

Since then, he updates the ’portrait’ once every half day, keeping the latest grasp of the Da Feng emperor’s appearance.

One could say Lin Yuan watched the Da Feng emperor age bit by bit.

The elder in the dragon robe’s appearance two months ago was identical to the portrait Lin Yuan had seen.

…

“Indeed, this test is not so simple.”

Lin Yuan’s thoughts gathered, his mind rapidly calming down.

Early on, when he came to this time loop world, Lin Yuan felt the test was somewhat too easy.

Merely assassinate an emperor?

Though the rules in this world are extremely stringent,

let alone Lin Yuan, any Chaos Realm consummate could train to Entering Dao Master level within seventy to eighty years.

After all, with cultivation at that level, even the most ordinary Chaos Realm consummate, with one hundred and thirty-four years of arduous training, could reach the strongest Entering Dao Master level in this world’s history.

And with the strength of the strongest Entering Dao Master, infiltrating the palace to assassinate the Da Feng emperor,

it’s not a 100% chance, but at least three or four times out of a hundred should succeed.

In other words, the probability for an ordinary Chaos Realm to perfectly break through the time loop can reach thirty to forty percent.

This clearly does not match the probability of successfully reaching the Thirteenth Layer from countless Chaos Realm levels in the past in the Chaos Void.

This is still based on the premise of an ordinary Chaos Realm being at its peak.

The time loop aimed at breaking through the Thirteenth Layer is formed by the Supreme Rule Dao, specifically targeting each lifeform based on their foundation.

Lin Yuan’s strength far surpasses the ordinary peak of the Chaos Realm, so theoretically, the time loop he faces should be even harder.

Originally, Lin Yuan speculated that perhaps the great strength of the Da Feng Emperor made the trial seem simple but actually extremely challenging.

However, the process of killing the Da Feng Emperor just now was incredibly easy.

The old man in the imperial robes possessed the peak strength of an Entering Dao Master.

Under the powerful, murderous strike from Lin Yuan, there was no resistance whatsoever.

In other words.

Lin Yuan’s speculation was incorrect.

“Could it be that the Da Feng Emperor in the trial does not actually refer to the Da Feng Emperor, but is someone’s name?”

Lin Yuan pondered in his heart, but soon dismissed this idea.

The trial of the time loop comes from the Supreme Rule.

Absolutely fair.

There are no word games played.

When it is said the Da Feng Emperor, then it is indeed the Da Feng Emperor.

And it still refers to the Da Feng Emperor that Lin Yuan knew originally.

“In other words, the Da Feng Emperor is not dead now.”

“But still alive?”

“Interesting.”

Lin Yuan’s expression showed a thoughtful look.

If it were another ordinary Twelfth Layer peak.

Seeing that they had already killed the target and completed the trial, yet the time loop still had not ended.

One would at least feel somewhat flustered or even start to doubt themselves.

But Lin Yuan did not.

With the presence of the World-Breaking Origin Force as a guarantee, Lin Yuan has the absolute initiative to break through the time loop at any time.

The reason for not immediately using the World-Breaking Origin Force is simply because he did not want to pay too high a price.

However, not wanting to pay the price does not mean Lin Yuan cannot bear the cost.

…

The time progresses to fifty years ago.

A seemingly ordinary ship drifted on the Endless East Sea.

The Endless East Sea, also known as Endless Deep Sea, is a vast expanse filled with gigantic sea beasts that existed since distant times.

On the deck of the ship stood a young man who appeared extremely noble.

If there were important ministers from the Da Feng Dynasty present, they would recognize this young man as the Da Feng Emperor currently on the throne.

“I spent twenty years cultivating a substitute identical to me, so even if I leave the palace, it won’t arouse any suspicion. That substitute will do everything in my place.”

The young man thought to himself silently.

The final trial tested him to live over one hundred and fifty years.

This meant that under normal circumstances, staying in the palace, he could not live beyond one hundred and fifty years.

Therefore, the young man did not hesitate to give up staying in the palace and came to the surface of the Endless East Sea.

This place is sparsely populated, and even at the height of the Da Feng Dynasty, exploration of the East Sea was extremely limited.

Of course, merely coming to the East Sea.

Was only the first step of the young man’s plan.

He turned and walked into the cabin.

A coffin several meters large was placed there.

The coffin was forged from pitch-black metal, exuding a deep glow.

“I exhausted all the foundation of the Da Feng Dynasty to cast this coffin with Original Divine Gold…”

The young man looked at the coffin, his gaze showing a peculiar light.

Original Divine Gold is the hardest metal since the birth of this world.

Even the mightiest Entering Dao Master cannot budge a fragment of Original Divine Gold the size of a fist.

At the founding of the Da Feng Dynasty, the great ancestor collected all the Original Divine Gold to forge nine cauldrons, suppressing the ninety-nine states, intending for the Da Feng Dynasty’s legacy to last forever.

However, until the great ancestor’s death, the gathered Original Divine Gold was insufficient.

The subsequent five generations of emperors followed the ancestral will, continuing to collect Original Divine Gold.

Up until the generation of the young man, some of the Original Divine Gold was finally gathered.

Originally, these Original Divine Gold should have been used to forge the nine cauldrons, but the young man forcibly used it to make an unprecedented coffin.

“I created a false-death technique using many Entering Dao Secret Techniques of the royal family. Once activated, it induces a state of sleep, with body functions consuming nearly nothing, allowing survival until life’s natural end, which is one hundred and thirty years later.”

The young man gently leapt into the coffin.

The pitch-black coffin closed immediately.

The next moment.

The ship bearing this coffin collapsed.

This pitch-black coffin swiftly sank to the bottom of the deep sea.

The sea depths, a forbidden zone for terrestrial life, especially the section the young man chose, is extraordinarily deep.

The young man, relying on the extremely hard Original Divine Gold, was able to resist the sea pressure at the bottom of the deep sea, whereas other lifeforms, even as strong as an Entering Dao Master, cannot survive at the sea’s bottom, crumbled to dust by the endless sea pressure.

This is the young man’s chosen way to survive the final trial.

He came to these depths, leaving no trace or clues, even his closest kin do not know his whereabouts.

The only ones who knew were the ship crew earlier, who also perished with the ship’s disintegration.

In other words.

At this moment, no one in this world knows his location.

In truth, even if anyone knew, it would not matter.

He sank to the sea’s bottom, who could reach the deep sea floor?

Even those terrifying sea beasts from ancient times dare not truly reach the sea floor, only roaming the surface.

Even taking a step back by ten thousand.

If someone could enter the sea bottom and retrieve this coffin made of Original Divine Gold.

But who could harm him through this world’s hardest Original Divine Gold even slightly?

Original Divine Gold blocks everything, including Spiritual Power.

Even Spiritual Power made tangible could not budge Original Divine Gold in the slightest.

The final trial’s test was to have the young man live over one hundred and fifty years.

The young man speculated that during this period, enemies would surely make attempts on him.

However, the trial requires him to survive for one hundred and fifty years, so the young man had no intention of facing that enemy.

Instead choosing to hide in the deepest part of the sea where no enemy could ever find him.

Giving no opportunity.

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PS: Thanks to ’Shangxian Qitian’ for the Alliance Hierarch reward.

An additional three Chapters due to the Alliance Hierarch’s reward.

However, let me rest a bit, and gradually repay—

Thank you—